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Renée Hackett
Originally from the small town of St. Bernard's, NL, Hackett is an actor/producer living in Toronto, ON. Since graduating from Memorial University of Newfoundland's Fine Arts Program, she has worked across the US and Canada primarily in the theatre. She has toured the USA and Canada extensively with large scale productions of some of favourite children's characters, Franklin the Turtle, Caillou and Clifford The Big Red Dog. She also voiced the live version of several animated characters.

Theatre
Her producing/acting credits include Those Who Wait, The Devil You Don’t Know and Top Girls. She performed in Even Burning and Savage Love in the Toronto Fringe Festival, and Steve Cochrane's Birthday Balloon.

Notable productions include David French's Of the Fields Lately, Leaving Home, and 1949, Robert Chafe's Tempting Providence (Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador), and Megan Coles' Our Eliza (Poverty Cove Theatre), as well as Myth of the Ostrich (Victoria Playhouse in PEI and The Toronto Fringe and Next Stage Festivals), The Ballad of Stompin' Tom (Sudbury Theatre Centre), Taming of the Shrew (Driftwood Theatre), and A Christmas Carol and Flowers (The Rose Theatre).

In March 2020, she was recognized with the Rhonda Payne Award from the ArtsNL.

Film & Television
Roles include The River You Step In, Mary Kills People, CBC’s Republic of Doyle and Those Who Wait (winner of the Silver Fly First Time Filmmaker Award) She wrote, produced, and starred in the short film, Some Saturdays, with Shawn Doyle.